Moose Musings

10:35pm: Yes! It's my 39th birthday today!

Man that feels weird to type...39 sounds so old! Although everyone assures me it isn't. :OP

Anyway, a good day was had in general, although for some reason after eating yogurt for breakfast today my digestive system was being a butt. This is weird because I often eat yogurt later in the day with no issue, so I'm not sure what that was all about. Very irritating though I was till able to enjoy my birthday dinner :O)

The big bro and his family are here (they usually don't stay for so long but since this is his first time visiting since 2019, they came for 3 weeks rather than 2) so on Mum's advice we went to a restaurant, the same one we went to for M's 90th birthday back in December. Unfortunately, M herself wasn't able to come, but Grandpa did, as well as my Uncle Sam, Aunt Jo and Cousin Mack. My little bro also came even though he usually works Tuesday nights, and Mum and Dad of course. :O)

I also got a lot of presents :OD The Pusheen 2023 Calendar and diary set, Cheezels and chocolate, a set of pencil shaped chocolate and also a bath towel to complete the set I got from my parents for Christmas. Only problem is...I already bought the bath towel since they were on special. So I'm not sure if I should try and return it or what? I don't actually have the receipt for the purchase I made I don't think and while I left the tag on for some reason, I have hung it up in my bathroom, so I guess I should try and return the one from my Grandparents. Silly me.

In other news, I was supposed to take the day off tomorrow so my brother and his kids could visit my apartment, however that's been pushed to Thursday. Which is good in that it gives me more days to clean the place up - I've taken down my Christmas decos but the place still wouldn't pass my mother's inspection. However, Thursday is also the last day my big bro and his family are here! So I was thinking of maybe going over tomorrow evening after work, but that won't give me enough time to finish my cleaning, plus it sounds like they might be super busy? On the other hand, I think only my bro, niece and eldest nephew will come, so I won't see my sister-in-law and youngest nephew. I didn't realise this when I said goodbye tonight, so I was kind of casual about it. Bummer.

Anywho, I better get a move on, I'm trying to get bed earlier these days and I should probably try and do more cleaning!

Oh! And this was fun, when I woke up this morning and said "Good morning" to my Google Home so it would turn on the radio, the Google lady wished me a Happy Birthday and even sung the Birthday song for me! LOL. GOtta love technology.

On that note, I'm off!

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11:33pm: Yes indeed! And I think Mum's right, oil heaters really do stop moisture from forming, which is a damn good thing because as I might have mentioned before I've been having trouble with that, like when I wake up in the morning there's so much moisture on the inside of my windows you could get a glass of water from it! It's also having an unfortunate effect of causing mould to appear in my pantry. Gross.

The only downside, I don't think this heater I got has a timer on it and I don't think I should leave it on all night...although maybe it'll work with the timer switch thing...

Also it's meant to have four little wheels, I didn't notice until I got it home that there's only three. I'm having to jack it up using an old glasses case. I got it from the Target at Macquarie Mall (it was ice skating day today :O), so I dunno. I guess I could go to the Target at the Warringah Mall and return it or at least ask for fourth wheel LOL.

Anyway! I have exciting news from the big bro, my parents timing was awesome, he and my sister-in-law, Eri had their baby, it's a boy! They've called him John after Dad (and Dad's grandfather, I think). Which is interesting, because I'm not sure if John can be transliterated into Japanes, I guess he could be 'Jon'. Scratches head.

In other news, ice skating went well! Although I think I'm not used to harder ice, I got them sharpened last week and while I did move better today, it was still a bit scratchy. In the summer the ice is softer because of the sun (or maybe because the ice rink was old? They've renovated) and the blade seems to dig in better. Also they are playing ice hockey there now and if I remember right, ice hockey players prefer harder ice. Dang, don't know what this means for me.

What else? Well tomorrow is the play! So I get the day off work tomorrow, nice :O). I'm planning to go to the gym because I totally slacked off on that this week! Aside from that the day is pretty much free until 3:30 when I go to my Aunt and Uncle's place to get ready to head off. The play starts at 5pm in the city and afterwards we'll go out to dinner. I'm looking forward to it.

That's pretty much all I have to say for now...I'm going to try and catch up on my Positive Notes because I've totally slacked off and need to catch up on three months worth of them! o.O I hope I can!

For now though I bid you all goodnight!

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